When you’re striving for something, especially a long-shot, the journey can be lonely.
You stay up late. You get up early. You’re always hustling. Friends ask you to hang out, but you’re busy. People who get close to you have trouble understanding this part of you. This insane drive. This eternal vigilance.
Sometimes you lose your spirit. Sometimes you feel like giving up.
If you’re smart, you gave yourself deadlines. That means you have to produce even when you’re beat. You have to show up. There’s no backing out.
But it’s killing you in that moment. You’re Washington at Valley Forge. Your soldiers are dying from exposure and disease. They don’t have shoes. Congress won’t send money.
Still, you have to keep going. You have no choice.
That’s when it’s hardest. When you can’t find the joy. When it’s nothing but struggle.
How do you get through it?
You power through. Do your best. Thankfully, you’re not in Valley Forge. No one’s going to die. Take a break when the deadline is met. Take some time off and recharge.
Get back up when you can. Stay on target. You can do it!
Seconding the deadlines.
It's quite easy to fall into a sunk cost fallacy mode and keep going at it through pure inertia, but it's good to check in with your goals and deadlines.
Thanks for the inspirational message Scott! Up at stupid o'clock clock to try and get these jokes written!